ROBERT EALEY WITH TONE SOMMER
''I LIKE MUSIC WHEN I PARTY''
MARCH 18 1997
50:15
1 - Shake Your Butt/4:36
2 - See About Me/3:11
3 - Don't I Love You/4:49
4 - Is Your Bathroom Clean/4:59
5 - Too Many Ways/3:31
6 - Cristena/4:49
7 - Elloise/3:53
8 - Shoo-Bee-Doo/3:42
9 - Graveyard Blues/3:10
10 - When The Lights Go Out (Let's Push It)/5:41
11 - Picture On The Wall/3:36
12 - Wild Wild West/3:51
All Tracks By Ealey & Sommer
Robert Ealey/Vocals, Vocal Harmonica Imitations On 7
Tone Sommer/Guitars
Jim Milan/Bass
Danny Cochran/Drums
Johnny Reno/Tenor Sax, Horn Arrangements
Danny Ross/Keyboards
Hash Brown/Harmonica
Helen Ealey/Backing Vocals On 12
REVIEW
By Thom Owens
Robert Ealey is no spring chicken. After singing in local Texas bands for years, he finally started recording in the '90s -- I Like Music When I Party was the fourth album he cut after starting his recording career. Like the others, it's a greasy colleciton of Texas blues, spiked with a bit of soul. Ealey's voice may be gravelly with age, but it's by no means gone, and with the support of his youthful backing band, he can really bring it home. There's nothing deep here -- just party music, played good and simple. Sometimes, that's enough.
BIOGRAPHY
By Richard Skelly
Dallas-based vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey began singing in his local church at age 15 with a quartet group in his native Texarkana. Influenced by the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Aaron "T-Bone" Walker, he began singing blues professionally at 20 after he moved to Dallas. In nearby Fort Worth, he joined the Boogie Chillen Boys and became a featured vocalist at the Blue Bird Club there. After singing there for 20 years, Ealey bought the Blue Bird Club and ran it for another ten years. 
After BlackTop Records purchased several master tapes from the Top Cat label in Dallas, they released Ealey's Turn Out the Lights. On the album, he is accompanied by a bevy of the D/FW area's best blues accompanists, including Mike Morgan and Sommer on guitars, Ty Grimes on drums and Mark Rybiski on saxophones. I Like Music When I Party followed in 1997.
''I LIKE MUSIC WHEN I PARTY''
MARCH 18 1997
50:15
1 - Shake Your Butt/4:36
2 - See About Me/3:11
3 - Don't I Love You/4:49
4 - Is Your Bathroom Clean/4:59
5 - Too Many Ways/3:31
6 - Cristena/4:49
7 - Elloise/3:53
8 - Shoo-Bee-Doo/3:42
9 - Graveyard Blues/3:10
10 - When The Lights Go Out (Let's Push It)/5:41
11 - Picture On The Wall/3:36
12 - Wild Wild West/3:51
All Tracks By Ealey & Sommer
Robert Ealey/Vocals, Vocal Harmonica Imitations On 7
Tone Sommer/Guitars
Jim Milan/Bass
Danny Cochran/Drums
Johnny Reno/Tenor Sax, Horn Arrangements
Danny Ross/Keyboards
Hash Brown/Harmonica
Helen Ealey/Backing Vocals On 12
REVIEW
By Thom Owens
Robert Ealey is no spring chicken. After singing in local Texas bands for years, he finally started recording in the '90s -- I Like Music When I Party was the fourth album he cut after starting his recording career. Like the others, it's a greasy colleciton of Texas blues, spiked with a bit of soul. Ealey's voice may be gravelly with age, but it's by no means gone, and with the support of his youthful backing band, he can really bring it home. There's nothing deep here -- just party music, played good and simple. Sometimes, that's enough.
BIOGRAPHY
By Richard Skelly
Dallas-based vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey began singing in his local church at age 15 with a quartet group in his native Texarkana. Influenced by the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Aaron "T-Bone" Walker, he began singing blues professionally at 20 after he moved to Dallas. In nearby Fort Worth, he joined the Boogie Chillen Boys and became a featured vocalist at the Blue Bird Club there. After singing there for 20 years, Ealey bought the Blue Bird Club and ran it for another ten years.
In 1990, Ealey hooked up with guitarist Tone Sommer and began touring outside of Texas. The band quickly found an audience for their authentic Texas urban blues in Europe, where they have toured more than a dozen times since 1990. Sommer and Ealey also did TV commercial work that made use of their music. Every September, Ealey performs in his own blues festival, held in Sundance Square, Fort Worth.
After BlackTop Records purchased several master tapes from the Top Cat label in Dallas, they released Ealey's Turn Out the Lights. On the album, he is accompanied by a bevy of the D/FW area's best blues accompanists, including Mike Morgan and Sommer on guitars, Ty Grimes on drums and Mark Rybiski on saxophones. I Like Music When I Party followed in 1997.